Ford Motor Company, Rouge Industries

1925

Not on view

In contrast to Sheeler's carefully selected details of the interior of Ford's manufacturing complex on the River Rouge near Detroit, Michigan, Rotch attempted to capture the massive expanse of the facilities in a panoramic view. Although this image conveys the impressive scale of its subject, the images Sheeler produced are notable for their memorable juxtapositions of man and machine toiling in the belly of this sprawling beast.

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Title: Ford Motor Company, Rouge Industries
Artist: Otto Rotch (American, active Detroit, 1920s)
Date: 1925
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 19.1 x 119.4 cm (7 1/2 x 47 in.)
Frame: 14 × 54 in. (35.6 × 137.2 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
Object Number: 1987.1100.461
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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